Baby-making teen role model Bristol Palin was too busy shimmying to vote: "I did not send in my absentee ballots to Alaska. I'm going to be in trouble. Sorry, mom!"

Her mother retorted, "Yeah? Well, my Dancing with the Stars votes were all for the Situation, anyway." In other news, the Washington Post's Celebritology blog has a nice metaphor for Bristol's uncanny ability to escape elimination at the hands of DWTS voters:

Week after week, she's been her own Tea Party—the improbable, unqualified, ostensibly unelectable wild card who keeps defying all odds.